You might have thought that the five “minisodes” that debut on the Doctor Who Season 6 box set DVD/Blu-Ray would be little more than filler or deleted scenes from the rest of the season, but really? There’s a case for most of “Night and The Doctor” to be an essential part of Steven Moffat’s Who canon.

Short of an episode being written by Alan Moore (or, perhaps, Stephen King), this week’s Doctor Who — written by none other than Neil Gaiman — may be the only time where the writer of the episode outshines the eponymous hero. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have some questions about it. Five of them, in fact …